There’s a style of predominantly male singing voice that catches my ear sometimes. To me, it has an almost buzzy or rattly sound, like a resonator guitar rather than a wood acoustic guitar. Unfortunately the only examples that come to mind at the moment are David Gray and Soren. It’s not buzzy, exactly. I think that ‘husky’ sounds more phlegmy. I thought of it as ‘reedy’, but I’m told that that’s more of a thin, tentative sound. ‘Breathy’ also isn’t the term I’d use for this, since that evokes whispering to my mind.
So what would you call this? Raspy? Is it an innate quality, or a technique?